I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. This is just the positive form of what had been said negatively in the previous verse. But it is more. Without abiding in Christ we cannot bear any fruit at all; but he that abideth in Christ, and Christ in him, the same bringeth forth-not fruit merely, as we should expect but - "much fruit:" meaning that as Christ seeks only a receptive soul to be a communicative Saviour, so there is no limit to the communication from Him but in the power of reception in us.
For without me (disconnected from Me, in the sense explained), ye can do nothing - nothing spiritually good, nothing which God will regard and accept as good.